July 2019 - Equipop

23 July 2019

– Press Release – G7 Finance Ministerial Meeting: reaction of Women 7 feminist organisations

A missed opportunity to take ambitious financial actions on women’s and girls’ rights

The G7 countries finance ministers as well as several multilateral financial institutions governors met on 17 and 18 July in Chantilly. It was the last ministerial meeting before the Biarritz Summit, and a key opportunity to announce ambitious funding for women’s and girls’ rights. Today, it does not add up and one question remains: where is the funding for feminist public policies? Without significant increases in budgets for women’s and girls’ rights at national and international levels, the feminist position defended by ministers Jean-Yves Le Drian and Marlène Schiappa will remain a hollow promise.READ MORE

10 July 2019

– Press Release – G7 – Development and Education Ministerial meetings: reaction of Women 7’s feminist NGOs

On 4 and 5 July, the Ministers of Education and Development of the G7 countries met in Paris. Women’s and girls’ rights were mainstreamed in the communiqués, but the Women 7 expected more concrete commitments, including to feminist official development assistance (ODA). France, which is among the G7 countries with the worst track records in terms of integrating gender equality into its development policy, has yet to prove its worth, particularly in terms of funding.

3 July 2019

– Women Deliver – From Charlevoix to Biarritz and Beyond: is the G7 an accelerator for gender equality?

Feminist activists gathered in Vancouver, Canada, to participate in Women Deliver 2019. Among the events marking the conference, a panel discussion on June 4 focused on the role that the G7 could play to accelerate efforts toward gender equality.